Saturday, May 17, 2014

87th Oscar Best Picture Updates (2014-2015 Awards Season) (5/17/2014)

I’ve been away from the predictions game for a while, but I’m hoping to get back on the horse this year. In the spirit of making that happen, I’ve decided that I’m going to skip most of the explanations this year and let the predictions and ranked alternates speak for themselves.

So without further ado, here are my Best Picture predictions for the 87th Oscars:

1. Unbroken (Predicted Winner!)

2. Interstellar

3. Foxcatcher

4. Gone Girl

5. Big Eyes

6. Mr. Turner

7. Birdman

8. Inherent Vice

9. Boyhood

Alternates (in order of predicted likelihood):

10. The Grand Budapest Hotel

11. Into The Woods

12. The Imitation Game

13. Get On Up

14. Queen Of The Desert

15. A Most Violent Year

16. Trash

17. American Sniper

18. The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies

19. Wild

20. Whiplash

21. Fury

22. The Homesman

23. Suite Francaise

24. The Search

25. Magic In The Moonlight

26. Exodus: Gods And Kings

27. Maps To The Stars

28. Jersey Boys

29. Men, Women & Children (aka Pale Blue Dot)

30. Deep Tiki (aka Untitled Cameron Crowe Project)

31. Rosewater

32. Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes

33. Kill The Messenger

34. Suffragette

35. The Monuments Men

36. The Railway Man

37. The Immigrant

38. Theory Of Everything

39. Cesar Chavez

40. Love Is Strange

41. Jupiter Ascending

42. Noah

43. The Disappearance Of Eleanor Rigby

44. The Judge

45. Two Days, One Night

46. Clouds Of Sils Maria

47. A Most Wanted Man

48. Calvary

49. Child 44

50. Miss Julie

As always, check the Tracker Pages in the upper right hand corner of this blog for the most updated predictions in all categories!

I was tempted to include Macbeth in my long list somewhere, but felt like it was still a 50/50 chance that it might stay in 2015. I am excited for the project though and can't wait to see what Fassbender and Cotillard are able to do with it.